Wealth and enjoyment

Wealth and enjoyment

Shri Phani raised a point: A person is going from India to a foreign country with a traveler’s cheque for a better enjoyment. Similarly, the certificate carried on by the soul gives a better enjoyment in the upper world and therefore the system is one and the same in both the cases.

Swami replied: There is a fundamental difference in both the systems. The money earned by you in India belongs to you because the wealth of the country is common to all the people represented by the Government. Neither the people nor the Government created the wealth of the country and cannot have the real ownership. Therefore, you can apparently own the part of the wealth according to your talent and work. There is meaning in your apparent ownership of the part of the wealth to some extent though that is also not valid in the spiritual sense. But the wealth of the country and all the people including the Government are created by God and therefore the ownership of God is perfectly valid from all the angles.

Even you are a part of His property and thus cannot be owner of any other thing.

Therefore, here the certificate carried by the soul is purely the result of the examination and cannot be compared to a traveler’s cheque. Of course, if the soul is going to heaven for better enjoyment, the certificate becomes similar to the traveler’s cheque in the final phase of the result, though not in the process of the generation of certificate. Now the point is becoming meaningful when the certificate gives you the abode of God (Brahma Loka) as in the case of Saktuprastha, who got the eternal fruit in the test of mentality towards wealth only. Getting heaven, as in the case of Pandavas, which is a temporary fruit, is in no way different from a traveler’s cheque and its subsequent enjoyment in a foreign country.

Of course, the same wealth gives a negative certificate for the hell also as in the case of Kauravas. Therefore, the mentality to the wealth is going to decide your fruit, which may be Brahma Loka or heaven or hell like first, second and third class grades.